Week of Firsts

This week was filled with lots of firsts in our family. Sunday, we gave Clayton his first taste of food! We started with rice cereal and he loved it! As you can tell from the video, he was grabbing, wanting to feed himself and so excited. Looks like I will have another good eater on my hands! Since we stared this, he is now grabbing for everything we are eating! Last night I was holding a hot dog while he was sitting on my lap and he dove for it with his mouth wide open! I took it away and he started crying! This happened several times until I had to hand him off to Jason so I could finish eating!

Monday, Brinley started gymnastics...or as she calls it "nastics". She is taking it 2 days a week this summer and she absolutely loves it! She asks every morning if she is going to "nastics", if I say yes then she grabs her leotard and starts to put it on. She does a very good job of listening to her coaches while they are explaining what to do and then does it correctly!

One of her favorite things to do, the rings!

On Friday, we met all of Brinley's friends at Discovery Green Park in Downtown Houston to watch a children's theatre production of Aladdin. Despite the heat index being 105 degrees, we had a good time. After watching the performance, we ate a picnic lunch and then let the girls play in the water fountains to cool off. We left after a few hours, hot, smelly and exhausted!


Saturday evening, we met some friends down in Galveston around 5pm. Since the summer heat and humidity have really hit this week, morning and evenings are our only times to get out and do things outside! The girls played in the ocean, built mountains of sand and decorated them with shells. We also grilled hot dogs and smores on the beach. It was a great relaxing evening that we all swear we will do twice a month now!
Brinley and Addison swimming in the ocean